Question

I have an info page I’ve written in plain HTML.

All the image links are like so:

<img src=”/images/image.png” /> so that they refer to the root of the web site.

However I want to look at the page with the images embedded before updating it. In chrome, <img src=”/images/image.png” /> looks in file:///c:/imgs/. However I want to redirect this to file:///C:/web/site/imgs/.

I’m trying to use <base > to no avail.

Answer 1

You can’t use <base> when your URLs are absolute like that. Here are a couple of alternatives:

Solution #1: Use the Windows subst command to make a drive letter for your “root” directory:

subst R: C:\web\site

then point your browser at R:\

Solution #2: Install a web server with the root configured to be C:\web\site, and point your browser at that.

Using a real web server is a much better way to test a web site – things like the browser’s JavaScript security policies are significantly different between local files and files read via a web server.